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Major General Robert Wilbur Mixon Jr. [1] (born October 5, 1952) [2] is a retired officer of the United States Army, [3] public speaker, [4] author, and the co-founder of Level Five Associates. [5]
Born in Georgia, [2] Mixon graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. degree in 1974. [6] He earned an M.A. degree in history from Rice University in 1982 with a thesis entitled Pioneer Professional: General John M. Schofield and the development of a professional officer corps, 1888-1895. Mixon also received a Master of Military Art and Science degree from the School of Advanced Military Studies at the United States Army Command and General Staff College in 1987. [2] [7]
Mixon was commissioned in 1974 upon graduating from West Point. After completing his first master's degree, he returned there to teach history from 1982 to 1985. [2]
Mixon was nominated for appointment to the rank of Brigadier General in 1998 [8] and then for the rank of Major General in 2002. [9]
In 2003, General Peter Schoomaker chose Mixon to lead Task Force Modularity with the aim of changing the US Army's structure. [10] The task force would attempt to break the US Army up into smaller, more effective "units of action." This modularization represented a shift from a hierarchical structure to a functional structure. [11]
Robert W. Mixon Jr. retired from active duty on October 1, 2007, after more than 33 years of commissioned service [3] and took over as president of Magnatag Visible Systems in the same month. [12] Mixon would later serve as the Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and Leadership Development at CDS Monarch. [13] While with CDS Monarch, Mixon helped to found the Warrior Salute Program for veterans with PTSD and traumatic brain injury. [5] [14]
Mixon would go on to co-found Level Five Associates, a leadership consulting company specializing in change management, in 2009 with his long-time friend and former classmate Major General (ret.) John Batiste. [5] Mixon and Batiste co-wrote the best-selling book, Cows in the Living Room: Developing an Effective Strategic Plan and Sustaining It, in 2014. [15]
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